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  Synthesis report on current and emerging youth policies and initiatives with links to agriculture: the case of Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2012

  Sub–Saharan African (SSA) countries have a unique population profile, with 44 percent of its population being under the age of 15, making it the youngest region of the world.
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  Agricultural input vouchers in Southern Africa: research findings from Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  This policy brief is a synthesis of the findings from research undertaken by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia to examine the different ways in which relief seed and seed vouchers are programmed. There are two main ways in which vouchers are used in these countries:
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  Promoting development of agricultural input markets in Mozambique

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  Mozambique needs to adopt more targeted and nuanced policies to encourage the development of effective agricultural input markets. This study makes recommendations to achieve this. Experiences in other countries and limited Mozambique experience suggest that agricultural input vouchers may be an important tool as well.
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  Integrating the non-commercial and commercial input markets through input vouchers: recommendations for Zambia

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  Based on both international experiences and research in Zambia, this policy brief recommends that Government develop and implement a policy to use agricultural input vouchers as a means to target support to poor smallholder farmers as well as to integrate the non-commercial and commercial input supply channels into an effective market system.
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  Integrating the non-commercial and commercial input markets through input vouchers or coupons in Malawi

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  Malawi has had a very positive experience with using vouchers or coupons to target agricultural inputs to poor farmers. Building on the lessons learned, the Government should now develop clear policies and guidelines to improve implementation while also assisting smallholder far mers to move to higher levels of sustained profitability. Polict recommnedations:
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  The potential of using an input voucher system to integrate the commercial and non-commercial input distribution systems in the Southern African Development Community

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2007

  Smallholder farmers in southern Africa use low purchased-in-put technologies and as a result, produce low yields and face chronic food insecurity for two to five months of the year. The problems such households face are compounded by natural calamities such as droughts and floods.
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  Using input vouchers for improving access to agricultural in-puts - who are the winners and losers?

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008

  Emerging from the worst harvest in a decade, the Government of Malawi implemented one of the most ambitious and successful assaults on hunger in the history of the African continent. Through a national input subsidy programme, coinciding with better rainfall conditions, maize production doubled in 2006 and almost tripled in 2007 and 2008.
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  True contribution of agriculture to economic development and poverty reduction in Malawi: who needs to know what?

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009

  The contribution of agriculture to economic development is enormous, as evidenced by the favourable direct and indirect impacts of agricultural growth and investment on Malawi’s economy, in terms of national income, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and other macro economic variables.
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  The status of agricultural water use, access, and productivity in the Limpopo Basin — opportunities for poverty alleviation

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010

  The Limpopo River Basin is home to 14,000,000 people, at least half of whom live in rural areas. Over ten million South Africans live in the basin - nearly 25% of the national population. The remaining population live in Botswana - one million people, nearly 60% of the national population - Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
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  Policies for enhanced livestock productivity and wealth creation in a changing climate

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010

  Agriculture in Africa is changing rapidly. Agriculture and livestock systems are among the most climate sensitive economic sectors. Many of the climate change predictions suggest that African livestock will be damaged by as early as 2020.

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